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REFRIGERATOR. No. 365,740.. Patented June 28, 1887...

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JAMES H. EonD, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES H.

LEONARD, OF SAME rLAoE.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,740, dated June 28, 1887. Application filed March 16, 1887. Serial No. 231,209. (l Vo model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES H. FORD, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the construction of the ice box in a refrigerator and the method of 10 Supporting the same, as more full y described hereinafter; and the object ofmy invention is to provide a means for the escape of Water which may pass through leaks in the metallic lining of the ice-box, in order to prevent it from pen [5 colating through, so as-to destroy the woodwork of the refrigerator. This object I accomplish by means of the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical Sectional view of one side of the refrigerator and through the bottom of the ice-box, and Fig. 2 is an inside elevation of the same side of the refrigerator, with a sectional view of the bottom of the ice'box.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.

A is the outer case, constructed in the ordinary manner.

O is the inner case. I

B is the space between the outer case and the inner case, which may be an air-chamber or may be filled with charcoal or any other suitable filling.

E is a cleat attached to or madeintegral with 35 the inner case, 0. In the drawings, as shown,

this cleat is made integral with said inner case.

D is the bottom of the ice-box, one end of which, as shown in Fig. 1, rests upon the cleat E. The cleat E projects from the inside of the case beneath the box, as shown in Fig. 1. The

ice-box, as Well as the inside of the refrigerator, is provided with a metallic lining. The lining in the ice-box is Shown by I, and the lining of the refrigerator below the cleat is 5 shown by H.

F is a groove beneath the bottom of the ice box D and in the cleat E, for the reception of the water which may leak through from the ice-box.

J is an opening from the groove F into the body of the refrigerator below the ice-box.

G is a groove below the ice-box and back of the projecting portion of the cleat E. The lining H extends up into the groove G, as Shown in Fig. 1.

In Fig. 2 I have shown the metallic lining turned back from the inner wooden ease, in order to Show more fully the relative positions of the parts hereinbefore named. The opening J may be flush with the cleat, or the wa ter may be conducted a short distance beyond the lining, as shown in Fig. 1. It has been found by practical expcrience'iu the use of rcfrigerators that the water from the ice-chamber will find its way through the metal lining, and as refrigerators are now constructed this water percolatesthrough into the case, destroying the usefulness of the packing when packing is used, and also causes the refrigerator to decay very rapidly and swell out of shape and loosen thejoints of the woodwork, and itis my de sign to prevent all damage from leakage by constructing a refrigerator in such a way that it will be impossible for the water which escapes from the ice-chamber to percolate through into the case of the refrigerator. In case the ice-chamber for any reason becomes injured, so that the water passes through the metallic lining, it finds its way into the groove F, from whence it is discharged through the opening J and drops or passes down the Side of the refrigerator to the bottom of the provision-chamber, whereI provide means for its. escape into the waste-pipe.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to have invented, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In arcfrigerator, the combination of the refrigerator-ease, the cleat E, provided with the groove F and the opening J, and the iceboxD, said ice box resting upon said cleat, and said groove F adapted to receive the water from leakage in the ice-box, and said opening scribed,provided with the groove F, and open- [0 J adapted to convey such water into the proing J, and groove G, and metallic lining H, Vision-chamber, substantially as described. the whole constructed substantially as de- 2. The combination of the ease and the cleat scribed. 5 E,having the groove G, and the metallic lining H, said metallic lining adapted to fit into the JAMES FORD groove G, substantially as described. Witnesses:

3. The combination of the case 0, the ice-box EDWARD TAGGART, D, metal-lined, the cleatE, constructed as de- V GEORGE CLAPPERTON. 

